Muscle Will Help You Live Longer | William Evans PhD

**Dr. Gabrielle Lyon** (0:02)
Welcome to The Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show, where I believe a healthy world is based on transparent conversations.
In today's episode of The Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show, I sit down with Dr. William Evans. He's an adjunct professor of medicine at Duke University Medical Center, and human nutrition in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He has played many significant roles and continues to play pivotal roles in advancing the science of aging and muscle health. Not only that, he is chief of the Human Physiology Laboratory at the Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University. He has more than 75,000 citations. He is the author or co-author of more than 300 publications in scientific journals and was the first to describe sarcopenia. He is the co-inventor of a non-invasive and accurate measurement of muscle mass, which is strongly related to health outcomes in older people.
For the listener, that is a lot of what we talked about. In this episode, we discussed the surprising fact that we have really only talked about lean body mass versus skeletal muscle mass and made a lot of extrapolations rather than directly measuring skeletal muscle mass. We also talk about what happens to muscle as you age and the age-old question, no pun intended, what is more important? Is it muscle mass or is it muscle strength? And how have we thought about this as it relates to health? This episode is critically important because I believe that this changes the next era of research that is going to be coming out on aging, muscle mass, muscle quality, and strength. I hope you enjoy. As always, if you like this podcast, please like, subscribe, share it, leave a comment, share it with a friend, share it with a family member who needs to hear it. And again, thank you so much for your time and attention.
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Dr. Bill Evans, thank you so much for coming on The Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show. This episode is going to be pivotal for people's education, and I'm going to tell you why.
Because for the longest time, we've been talking about lean body mass, and we've been talking about lean body mass as it relates to the hallmark of health, right? And we have not found that there are many correlations of lean body mass versus skeletal muscle mass as it relates to health and wellness.